HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN!!
 

Once again, they got things right!  Aside from Carolyn's questions to David the other day about ghosts, as though she didn't know he had had all sorts of ghostly experiences in the past, there was another time a while back.  I forget the details, but I think Barnabas assumed that David couldn't know about the secret room or something like that.

So, today he finally remembered.  He reminded David that he had found him there once before and even mentioned the secret room to him, knowing it really wasn't a secret to him.  I couldn't believe it that they got back on track with that!

. Don't expect to see David in every scene.

I remembered to tape it last night and watched it a little later.  I know absolutely nothing about this show.  So, a pleasant surprise to hear and then see Selby immediately as it began.  He had a nice minute or so at the beginning and then . . . that was it!!

So sad.  After your first message I had thought perhaps he had been able to get out.

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Well, actually, no.  I think it depends on your interpretation of "growing up."

Carrie, at least, seemed like she was easily 15 or 16.  Tad wasn't around much because Henesy left the show, and both were clearly too old to be playing with dollhouses and rocking horses.

What you have to understand is that in that time period, girls commonly married very young.  Carrie, (who seemed to be into the flirting scene already--less interested in dolls than in men) could have been married as is and would not have been occasioned much comment.

I was thinking of the marrying young, at least for girls, but I assumed that Carrie was supposed to be around 14.  While her interests were clearly developing in that direction, I got the impression that she still wasn't quite considered grown up.  I really don't know anything about what children played with in those days, but I assumed that they remained more like "children" for longer than they do now.

Every so often the old page doesn't completely slide off.  In those instances, if I manually move down through the page, it eventually disappears.  However, if I'm using the "new post" feature, because the old post isn't completely gone, it never gets around to jumping to the first new item and I have to look through the old ones on the page to find my place.

And, while mentioning your new features, no one has commented on the opening page.  I'm sure it must be a deliberate feature you've added.  When one first enters, all of the menu items at the top are very spread out and bit by bit close up to their normal position.  It's kind of cute!

As to jacks and pick-up-sticks, I think those are things I mostly did with my mother.  I'm not sure if I played with other kids at those or not!!  So, I might have done it at an even older age than the kids here.

I think a lot depends on the individual children and peer pressure.  I remember a girl moving across the street and coming over and playing with my dolls.  In a way I think we might even have been 13, but perhaps just 11.  At any rate, she had already given away all of hers and missed it!


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As to the David and Hallie stuff, I've always attributed that to the ghosts.  While David and Hallie were clearly too old for the toys, I figured they were being possessed by Tad and Carrie.  They seemed to be younger, but even if they weren't, kids back then probably didn't grow up as fast as modern kids do (even in the 60s let alone now!).